To use an old Jerry Seinfeld joke, why don't they just
build the whole spacecraft out of the same stuff they
use for the black box?
:^)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robert Crawley
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Failure IS an option
Yeah, I noticed that. And that info from NIMA was released in March, so its
been around for a while. Your apparently right in that Space.com helped
invent/embelish the story quite a bit. Makes you wonder about alot of their
other stories. Which was why I checked out NIMA's side of things in the
first place and provided the second link. But the concept behind the whole
ordeal was to have a contingency plan of sorts, a "black box" if you will,
for when things do go wrong. Because they can and they will.
- R. Crawley
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From: "Bruce Moomaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Icepick Europa Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Failure IS an option
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Crawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:16 PM
> Subject: Failure IS an option
>
>
> >
> >In an ironic twist in the Mars Polar Lander story, the National Imagery
and
> >Mapping Agency (NIMA) thinks it has found the MPL intact, upright and
> >standing right where NASA sent it.
> >
> >http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-01b.html
> >
> >Actual press release:
> >
> >http://164.214.2.59/general/26mar01.html
>
>
> You're a bit behind the times on this one -- the idea has been pretty
> thoroughly pooh-poohed since "Space.com" first came out (prematurely) with
> the story, for the simple reason that MGS' photos have a top resolution of
> fully 1.4 meters per pixel -- which means there's no way they could
possibly
> show the lander as anything more than a speck composed of 2 or 3 pixels,
> which would thus show absolutely nothing about its landing condition, or
> even allow its identification with any confidence.
>
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